Cursing and Swearing

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not_nadine

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Sunlight Gardener

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It sounds like the thread starter must be very sheltered. Many people in real life curse a whole lot in casual conversations. We all know the stereotype that construction workers, coal miners and of course sailors all curse like.....well, sailors. However, I can tell you that I have worked in several different career fields....both in the blue collar and in the professional realm. Professional folks are every bit as foul mouthed as your construction worker or coal miner behind closed doors lol.....ok I admit that I include myself. Especially people that work with in education that are around kids all day....boy you ought to hear them when they are off the clock and the kids are gone for the day ha ha. They could teach construction workers a new word or two.
 

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I read Doctor Sleep and I never really noticed an overuse of profanity. It was all in context. I think swearing in everyday speech is more pronounced than it was when I was a teenager.
 

not_nadine

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I read Doctor Sleep and I never really noticed an overuse of profanity. It was all in context. I think swearing in everyday speech is more pronounced than it was when I was a teenager.

Re-reading Dr. Sleep now. I didn't remember anything unusual the fist time, and not seeing it now either.

Gan *!@%&&# Darnnit. Am looking out for it, too.
 

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I wonder if King gets spanked...say a hundred years from now? Made to go stand in the corner...with Twain, who else? D.H. Lawrence? Anyone that had anything of significance, right? Or maybe the pendulum swings so far out of control that no one reads King a hundred years from now because he's so tame? That could be a thread: What will King get spanked for a hundred years from now? Heh! Thinkin of what that old lady says to Ralph in Insomnia.
 

Walter Oobleck

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Question does the english language have some "cute" swear words/ phrases. We have some in German I am just wondering about it now?

We mostly use them when we are around kids or in public. Since I think that SK novels are for adults I do not mind the swearing.

In Christine,
Christine breaks down in (flat tire, no spare) front of a house where the woman steps out and tells Arnie he can't leave that junk here. Dennis shows up and Arnie gives him some money to get a new tire. Meanwhile, the lady's kids (boy & a girl) have been watching. "My mother says that car is poopy." from the little boy...the little girl chimes in, "poopy-kaka." Their mother's a Capricorn. Heh!
Later, a character says
I've got to take a whiz.
I think one of the funnier words is tally-whacker. Don't know if King has ever used that one...seems like he did, don't recall. Parents...and others...would swear in Finn...sounded awful, and impressive but that's not the same thing I don't imagine. I remember being called a "row-ho" by a two-year-old down below and far away. Out of the mouths of babes. And then later and still years ago, cute little neighbor girl, musta been all of four, liked to call me "poopy pants!" We lived next to a corn field in Iowa at the time...something inherently spooky about a field of corn. "You can hear it grow"...as they say...there was this once, get out of the truck, "poopy pants!" She wanted to be chased I suspect...I said something about the corn field and pointed. And lo and behold...some guy happened to be crossing it, backpack, about a quarter mile off. Tinkle. That's one from ago...Do you have to tinkle? Tinkle. Heh! Yeah MA! I have to take a whiz!